You're stupid. Bye.

OT: Who at Fox is dressing female news anchors like they're going to the club?? Watching her dressed and made up like that while talking about sexism is about to make my brain meta-explode.

WHITE PEOPLE!

She didn't say she works like a regular person nor did she compare herself to "traditional" working moms. She's a mom, she works (and she works really hard - you can't really think one of the biggest cultural icons of the past 9 years got that way from just sitting in front of a camera and getting bossed around by…

Not all of us have to copy-and-paste info from other media sites and call it news to make a living.

Agree - yeah, she's no Jezebel blogger-level of inspiring. *eyeroll*

I'm saying that I think people who use the terms "date rape" or say things like "he's not a classic rapist" are racist so perhaps the headline was a Freudian slip anyway. To me, that those terms are required implies something about "typical" rape and rapists, which is that white people don't do them.

Freudian slip, though! Whenever I hear people use the phrase "date rape" or talk about typical racists, you know that's code for "white rapist", which has to be qualified since duh most criminals are Black men.

Right. On The Salad Bowl the other day, a commenter referred to her style as "vocal blackface". I find it spot-on.

That there is a single universal death ritual was definitely not my point nor is it Didion's. That there are universally death rituals is the point. I would argue that every culture having a death ritual indicates that every culture subscribes to a code of morality that dictates treatment of the dead. Violating that…

My comment was all a Didion quote. We'll just have to disagree that not all cultures have death rituals!

I think you might have misunderstood my comment; I said every culture has a death ritual, not that every culture engages in burials. The first line of the Tibetan Sky Burial article you linked says it's a "funerary practice" - I would count that as a death ritual/tradition. As for a body farm - that's not an extension…

You misunderstood my comment. I wrote, "One of the most long-standing social norms across all cultures throughout all time is that you take care of the dead", not that we bury the dead. Every culture has a death ritual. I just did a quick Google search of the two cultures you mentioned and it looks like they do have…

Because Joan Didion says so:

Media stereotypes everyone but this movie is specifically about what Black people deal with, it's about Black people. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment? Hearing, "This movie is about Black people" and responding with "Why isn't it about other people?" seems like a non sequitur to me.

See, I don't have that experience with parents. My kids' parents are very trusting of the schools and while they're not jumping to have sex ed, it's actually legislators (who have absolutely no understanding of the community's struggles) and community leaders (usually religious hypocrites) who push this bullshit…

It's so hard for me to understand how people can justify adding "morality" to medically accurate information. As a high school teacher in Louisiana who daily witnessed the effects that a lack of sexual and reproductive health education has on children (or health education IN GENERAL AT ALL), the only thing that keeps…

Admittedly, there's something kind of annoying about posing a model who probably never gets to eat pizza in a t-shirt reading "World Pizza Eating Champion" or showing a super conventionally attractive actress scarf down a burger while wearing a bikini on the beach and not showing the bloated aftermath.

Fear IS a fact of life. That doesn't mean it's present at every second. Death is a fact of life - does it consume your every thought? When people ARE afraid all the time, there is usually a reason. When those people are adults with lots of life experience, those reasons are usually past experiences. To say those…